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Ramadan And Our Excess Baggage

As we enter the month of Ramadan, I sit and reflect upon how I can do better in this year’s Ramadan as if it is my last. If there’s one thing that hit me the most recently, it is the reality that we are not promised time and death comes to us unexpectedly.

That led me to realize that I carry excess baggage that hinder me from filling my life with beautiful things Islam taught me. My excess baggage is filled with hatred, materialistic desires, insecurities, fears, doubts, and residues from my pain. I’d love to change my excess baggage with overflowing love for others, work that will benefit the ummah, confidence, optimism, prayers and hope. 

This month is the perfect month to deal with our excess baggage that we’ve been carrying for years. Let’s purify ourselves with ibaadah. It is not too late to change ourselves if we are given the time NOW, we should not waste this time. 

May Allah (swt) accept our fasting, forgive our sins, and guide us to the straight path. 

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I'm in this point of my life when I find it a need to create a pvt page on my business website for my clients to read in case something bad happen to me unexpectedly and a letter for my family with all my passwords so they can turn down websites, & social media accounts. Death is indeed unexpected and chooses no age.

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You cant build home out of people who seek home themselves. We are all travellers seeking for home. We long for that comfort of home. So we think that the more we build homes in others, the more we nurture our relationships with them, we’d feel home. Indeed, the materials we use to build our homes such as  family, people, status, luxury.. all are temporary. The more we seek them, the more we feel discontentment. It’s alright to build homes in this world but we should not consider these our real homes. We should not forget building our homes in akhira as early as now. There lies our real home. Only when we start being concerned more about our home in akhira that we will feel contentment in this dunya — whatever our home here may be.

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Running back to Allah (swt)

Have you caught yourself drowning deep into the ocean of loneliness? Have you felt your hands holding on to wrong people who you thought would keep you guided? Have you lost your faith and ashamed to return back to Him? 

You are blessed.

You feel that you are lost without Him.

You feel that you’ve been sailing towards the wrong path.

You feel guilty for disconnecting from Him.

You know you are in need of His love, forgiveness and guidance.

Indeed, you are blessed.

The pain, loneliness and emptiness you feel now are your guidance from Him to realize that you are welcome if you return to Him.

Feel ashamed if you ignore His invitation. 

Feel ashamed if you keep moving farther way from Him.

Feel ashamed if you choose finding healing in other than Him.

You’ve been longing for guidance but you are given a lot every single day.

It is your choice to ignore and keep seeking for nothing or to run back to Him and regain your peace.

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Whatever the case, it is not permissible for you to continue in a relationship with a man who is not your mahram. Rather he should either do a legitimate shar‘i marriage contract with you, with the approval of your guardian, even if consummation is delayed until your gradation or you should cut off all communication between you until the decree of Allah comes to pass. You should note that correspondence and contact between the sexes is one of the doors that lead to fitnah (temptation). Sharee’ah is filled with evidence which indicates that it is essential to beware of falling into the traps of the shaytaan in this matter. When the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) saw a young man merely looking at a young woman, he turned his head so as to make him look away, then he said: “I saw a young man and a young woman, and I did not trust the shaytaan not to tempt them.” Narrated by al-Tirmidhi (885) and classed as hasan by al-Albaani in Saheeh al-Tirmidhi. This does not mean that it is haraam for a man or woman to like a specific person whom he or she chooses to be a spouse, and feel love for that person and want to marry them if possible. Love has to do with the heart, and it may appear in a person’s heart for reasons known or unknown. But if it is because of mixing or looking or haraam conversations, then it is also haraam. Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen (may Allaah have mercy on him) said: A person may hear that a woman is of good character and virtuous and knowledgeable, so he may want to marry her. Or a woman may hear that a man is of good character and virtuous and knowledgeable and religiously committed, so she may want to marry him. But contact between the two who admire one another in ways that are not Islamically acceptable is the problem, which leads to disastrous consequences. In this case it is not permissible for the man to get in touch with the woman or for the woman to get in touch with the man, and say that he wants to marry her. Rather he should tell her wali (guardian) that he wants to marry her, or she should tell her wali that she wants to marry him, as ‘Umar (may Allaah be pleased with him) did when he offered his daughter Hafsah in marriage to Abu Bakr and ‘Uthmaan (may Allaah be pleased with them both). But if the woman contacts the man directly, this is what leads to fitnah (temptation). End quote. Liqaa’aat al-Baab il-Maftooh (26/question no. 13) Admin team

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Don’t Put Labels on Others

One problem I noticed is putting labels on everyone. We categorize people based on our own classification. There are those we call moderate Muslims, Extremist Muslims, Radical Muslims, Practising Muslims, Hypocrites, Muslims by name, Muslims by heart.... and a lot more, name it.

The truth is we dont have right to put labels on people we dont really know fully, we arent even a bit of what a judge is to judge people because only Allah swt knows who we really are. You cant call others by labels when you dont even know how Allah sees you. You may think you are the rightful Muslim, but how sure are you that Allah sees you that way? So, dont judge anyone based on what you see. Because the truth is... not everything you see about others define them wholly. Not everything people shows are 100% representation of who they are.